Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Trochida > Superfamily Trochoidea > Family Margaritidae > Genus Margarites

Margarites costalis (A. Gould, 1841)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Trochus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margarites*	Leach, 1847	accepted genus name
*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	junior homonym
*Margarites (Margarites)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym
*Trochus (Margarita)*	Leach, 1819	synonym

Species group names

*Turbo cinereus*	Couthouy, 1838	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Trochus leachii*	R. A. Philippi, 1852	synonym
*Trochus polaris*	R. A. Philippi, 1852	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: boreal rosy margarite; northern ridged margarite sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Nördliche Kreiselschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Russian: Маргарита реберная

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Gulbin, V. V.; Chaban, E. M. (2012). Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 15-16: 5-30. [In Russian].
additional source	Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margarites costalis (A. Gould, 1841). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141819